Spatial macroecology, data science, conservation

Welcome Lauren!

Lauren Schricker is joining the lab this semester as our first grad student! She’ll be mostly running our large scale bird survey field projects, while also joining in many of our other lab interests. Like many of us around here, Lauren has a diverse and interdisciplinary academic background, with a B.S in Geology (Allegheny College) and a P.S.M. in Environmental Management and Sustainability (St. Edward’s University). You can read more about Lauren on her personal website. Welcome!

Our lab studies biodiversity loss and extinction in human-altered landscapes. To do this, we develop and apply macroecological theory in the lab and use acoustic recorders to study bird and bat distributions in the field.